Platform Engineering Team/Metrics Platform Value Stream

Group:	Platform Engineering
Team members:	Will Doran, Sam Smith, Clare Ming
Backlog:	https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/5324/
Lead:	Emil Chetty

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This page has been deprecated, this team has been replaced by the Data Products team.

Mission / Objective

The Metrics Platform is a suite of services, standard libraries, and APIs for producing and consuming data of all kinds from Wikimedia Foundation products. For data producers, it aims to simplify the task of designing, implementing, and maintaining data-producing code (also called instrumentation), while offering better guarantees of quality, rigor, and safety. For data consumers, it aims to streamline the process of defining a new dataset and offer a rich set of tools to answer questions and generate insights with data. A detailed breakdown along with documentation can be found on our Wikitech Metrics Platform page.

What the Metrics Platform can do

specifies how clients work with the Event Platform
provides standardized algorithms, behaviors, and basic necessities for web and app tracking, including:
standardized session ID generation, consistent across MediaWiki, Android, and iOs
attaching the necessary metadata to logged events such as client-side timestamp recording when the event was generated
determining which events are in-sample or out-of-sample based on a specific identifier (pageview, session, device)

Work Intake Process

For significant projects, you can follow Platform Engineering teams how to work with us process.

For work related to bugs, features or support on the Metrics Platform or any of its client libraries, you can contact Lead Product Manager Emil Chetty directly or create a task on our Phabricator board, tagged with #metrics-platform assigned to echetty(Emil Chetty). The team meets throughout the week and triages on a rolling basis.

Metrics Platform Value Stream Demo

On a regular cadence, the Metrics Platform Value Stream team will post demos of our developments/works in progress here to provide transparency and gather feedback.

Demo Sessions

Note: You'll need to be signed in with your WMF account to view these videos.

Date	Links	Presenters
2021/09/08	First Demo	Desiree Abad